The Director Writes...
Happy New Year! If learning & training are
your resolutions, we have a wealth of free opportunities including
....
Action Learning: we have a few free places left on our Action
Learning Set in Oldham, the focus is
Empowerment, Equality & Economic Inclusion. Action Learning is
an engaging way to share your challenges, experiences and solutions in
relation to the theme with peers from other organisations &
sectors. For more information, for more information. 
Reduce your carbon footprint and your bills for
2010: F4C are able to offer faith communities in the North West a free
high quality Sustainability Audit of their building, uniquely offering
NVQ2 assessed training to volunteers from within the faith, other faiths
and members of the local community who attend. Audits enable you to
consider current energy & water use, waste and procurement and costs,
as well as creating an action plan to determine your next steps - with
full support. Please contact Tom, for more details e mail: tom@faiths4change.org.uk or
telephone 07894 423 249. We
look forward to welcoming you.
Annie Merry
upcoming events...
Fairtrade |
Flowers, Faith & Photos |
Women in Faith |
Down to Earth Faith |
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25th January 7.30pm
Chaplaincy Centre, Lancaster University - Insight into the work
of Fairtrade |
28th January
3-5pm for 8 weeks
Training
and exhibition 12-3pm St John's Centre, Ayres Rd, Old
Trafford- contact Karen to
book |
18th February
6-8pm
Harold House, Dunbabin Road, Liverpool
Talk on Judaism, plus Kosher Food |
20th
February
9.30am -
12.30pm
Western Rooms, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral for
Liverpool Diocese Hosted by Bishop James Jones
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Out and about with our Project Officers this month...
The
Return2Work Programme is a great success with nine people attending on
regular basis. This 25 week course is a joint venture
between faiths4change and Myerscogh College and gives unemployed people an
opportunity to learn about horticultural skills and hands on experience on
gardening techniques.
Students
enjoyed few weeks of theory lessons at Southwest Burnley Community
Enterprise Centre and looking forward to visit Myerscough College Thursday
21st Jan 2010. This will give them a chance to explore different career
opportunities i.e. follow up courses available. Next few weeks is more
practical and hands on learning at Chicken Hill Gardens situated at Howard Street
South West Burnley. Here they will be learning how to use a range of
equipment & machinery, identify plants, maintain gardens, prune
plants, take cuttings, plant seeds and grow your own vegetables.
Local
residents are most welcome and join the activity. To book a place please
contact samia at 01282441522. Email
Samia
 Congratulations
to the Evangelical Church in Heaton Moor who have applied for a
£2,000 grant for a Food and Heritage Calendar for 2011 with Norris Bank Primary
School.
The calendar will have pictures form the children, heritage
information from the senior people of the neighbourhood and food
information from the schools garden club and Green Lane Allotments as well
as focussing on recipes for religious/cultural festival for food ie hot
cross buns at Easter/Persian dish for Eid/Asian sweets for Diwali. The
calendar will be uploaded to The Kindling Trust website for their food
mapping of Greater Manchester.
What's
been happening in Manchester
over the last week - lots of snow people and animals have popped up - and
very artistic they have been
too! Contact
Karen
Fairtrade: how
it works, who benefits, who regulates it? Coffee from
Ethiopia to your
kitchen.
A fascinating
and informative insight into the world of Fairtrade by Joe Human, formerly
of Oxfam, now co-ordinator of Cumbria Fair Trade Network, based on his
close experience of coffee farming in Ethiopia
and how they come to be fair-trade farmers and how the fair prices are
organised, including the challenges to Fairtrade. At the Chaplaincy
Centre, Lancaster University, Monday 25th
January at 7.30 pm. All are very welcome.
Some recent good new is the award of a Development Fund
grant to the Lanc aster
Faith & Justice Commission to run art workshops with local schools,
parishes and youth groups. These will be on the theme of food security and
will help create artworks for the national annual Faith & Justice
conference in July. The conference is on the theme of 'Our Daily
Bread: Food Security, People & Planet' and will be attended by over
300 people. Watch the events page on our website in coming weeks for
further details of the art workshops and summer
conference.
email
Tom
 The Liverpool office has always had an interest in the
topical issue of bees, and the worrying decline in numbers of honey bees
in particular. Our first Faiths4Change training event was in 2008 in
Walton, hosted by bee keeper, Rev Trevor Lathom at St Mary's Church.
Trevor showed us his bee hives which he keeps in the vicarage garden and
despite having to do a wedding during the day, opened up his home and
garden for us and inspired us with his tales of beekeeping. The Lancashire
Beekeeping Society brought some wonderful visual aids and were excellent
at explaining about the life cycle of bees and how to get into beekeeping.
If you would like to find out more about beekeeping there is a
taster day coming up at Edge Hill University hosted by the Lancashire
Bee keeping Society who we thoroughly
recommend.
Beekeeping
Introduction Day
Saturday 13
February 2010
Edge
Hill University, St Helens
Road, Ormskirk,
Lancashire L39 4QP
10.00am -
4.00pm
Cost £50.00
per person, including lunch and morning/afternoon refreshments.
Numbers are
limited, so registration in advance is essential.
Telephone
Penny Oakley on 08445 867841 to book a place.
www.lancashirebeekeepers.org.uk/documents/ormskirk_1.html
Contact
Helen |
